James Lilley was born on January 15, 1928 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He is known for 60 Minutes (1968), The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) and Declassified (2004). He was married to Sally Booth. He died on November 12, 2009 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.